Last week, the starter on my old car's 455 V-8 broke down. As I couldn't get
a new starter, I'm having the entire engine extracted and junked so as to put
in a rebuilt one that includes a starter. If you see what I mean?
After three days of trying to fix one problem in XP, ...

Under System -> Advanced tab -> Performance Options, I want to set the memory
usage to prefer "System Cache".
I can do this as an administrator. However, when I log back in as a
restricted user, the options are grayed out (obviously), but also reset to

After a fresh XP Pro install, I immediately installed SP3, then went to look
for updates released after I downloaded SP3 (Which was a few months ago), But
everytime I run Windows Update, it tell's me there is no updates available...?
I tried to reregister the DLLs but that didn't ...

I tried to get ird of the trojan and then when I rebooted, it will not let me
login now.  I never had a login to begin with.  I tried the Admin acct and it
says restricted.  I know the virus is still in there but it should not have
locked me out.  Is there a way to get around the ...

Will my approach right?
I will count physically how many workable PCs and Monitors in the office.
then I will count how many software installed in each PC based on purchased
licenses, then I will set security policy on shared files, what is next ...

I have successfully downloaded and installed SP3. Is there any reason
why I should not delete all the $NTUninstall folders in my Windows
directory?
Many thanks.

I am trying to do a backup (have been succesful in the past) using system
backup to an external drive.  All of a sudden I now get the error message
"Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:800423f4. Aborting
Backup."  What is this and how can I fix it? Can anyone ...

If i have more than 1 window open, and I try to close one of them I get an
error message, and it asks me if I want to send  the error or not. What ever
i hit it closes all of the windows i have open. can some one please help and
tell me what to do?

I have tried several times to restore my system to an earlier date, and I
keep receiving the following message:
        "Your computer cannot be restored to Friday May 02, 2008
        System Checkpoint

I have a Toshiba  Satellite L35 Series with XP sp2 and encountered a
problem, which I hope does not require me to use my Recovery disks. I
believe that this occurred when the power off button was pushed while
the laptop was booting up. Anyhow, since then, when I turn on the

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I have 3 PCs and a laptop all running XP (Home, Pro and Media).   Last week I
downloaded SP3, and installed it successfully on the 3 PCs - but installation
on the laptop failed on each of three attempts.   On the PCs I simply ran the
downloaded file, "WindowsXP-kb936929 ...

tryed to run above,asks for xp sp2 disc,i only have sp1 disc
so tryed copy file I386 from disc to c: , and changed reg key
source path to c:
still askes for disc,

I use video in presentations and it is jerky when it plays.  This started
suddenly about six months ago for no apparent reason.
I am running XP sp2, 512mb on a Lattitude D610
I used the Performance tool in XP and everytime the video jerked the paging

XP Home w/SP3
I just had SP3 installed via Windows Update.
It went just fine. Installed without errors.
But I use XPize and decided it would be a good